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Mono Japan in Amsterdam

MONO JAPAN is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft and design. It is an event and a platform devoted to sophisticated beauty grounded in tradition. Okay! We, Mimi Berlin Blogger Team, went to this Japanese event for the first time ever.

Teatowels x Mono Japan

Bonne Suits x Mono Japan

Bonne Suits x Mono Japan

Woth Magazine presenting the Japan issue

Sweet Hirado Room

Yamma Bags

Yamma Sangyo

Harappa clothes

Kyo-to-to mushroom tabi socks

Kyo-to-to Patches

Kyo-to-to Patches

Shimpei Arima, Sugicodama cedarwood

Shimpei Arima, Sugicodama cedarwood.

Shimpei Arima, Sugicodama cedarwood.

Shimpei Arima, Sugicodama cedarwood.

Connecting the Dots/Saga Arts

In Praise of Shadows room

view from the 6th floor at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam

Studio Chikufusha/Beppe Bamboo

Studio Chikufusha/Beppe Bamboo

Studio Chikufusha/Beppe Bamboo

All Participants to Mono Japan-Amsterdam

Sugicodama

We were stunned by so much traditional arts & crafts in one building. You must know; we have a complete different image of Japan in our minds: the colorful and tech-forward Japan. But we did spent a long time stroking the ‘Sugicodama’ cedarwood sculptures by Shimpei Arima; they were amazingly soft to the touch!

Mono Japan can be visited through February 19, 2018 at the Lloyd hotel & cultural embassy, Oostelijke Handelskade 34 in Amsterdam.

Museumvisits Photographed by Mimi Berlin’s Blogger Team

Mimi Blogger Team visits exhibitions all the time. We often take Partysnaps but we also like to like to incorporate the art itself in our photo’s. Over the years we gathered a large collection of people watching the art on show. The moments we capture are special or absurd or just plain pretty. We also like to take these photo’s when we’re bored or when the younger audience is bored. Also if it’s too crowded to really have a look at the paintings (or other form of art) on show, which is often the case on opening nights.

VanLamsweerdeMatadin. Romanticism Today!/Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner

From left to right:

At the opening of in the Gemeente museum, The Hague. Couple is reminescing their past friend who’s work is on show.

A woman taking a photo of the wall at Fondazione Prada, Milan

Mimi Blogger Team in line at the opening night of Jump into the Future at the Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam

At the opening of 25 years of Gem Kingdom: Dutch jewelry designers, at the Coda museum in Apeldoorn.

At the opening of Elise Tak‘s exhibition; The Baby Dailies. Where we met André Smits for the first time. For his ongoing work, a ‘Never ending art trip’: Artist in the world, Smits photographes (mostly) artists facing their work. The shot above was his setting wich we ‘stole’ at the Gemeentemuseum Helmond

A visitor reading a large portion of text at the Hacked Store and another visitor browsing through a vintage designer clothes collection at the opening of the ‘Temporary Fashion Museum‘ at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.

Fun with Paintings by Javier Mayoral

The paintings (acrylics on wood) by Javier Mayoral are based on random texts, with just the right imagery added to them. Some are sexy, some are not: but all illustrations a little bit absurd.. So much fun and pretty at the same time. Available from pulpbrother.com. Price ranges from from $150 to $200.

Original Acrylic Painting on Wood. Dimensions Approx. 8″ X 9.5″ X 1/4″ 2017 Signed and dated on the back image courtesy of pulpbrother

Original Acrylic Painting on Wood. Signed and dated on the back image courtesy of pulpbrother

Original Acrylic Painting on Wood. Dimensions Approx. 8″ X 9.5″ X 1/4″ 2017 Signed and dated on the back

As we speak (January 2018) the ‘Mustache’ painting on the left is still for sale. Javier Mayoral’s production seems high, so it’s maybe nice for you to follow him on instagram: @pulpbrother

Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner

Mimi Blogger Team went to The Groninger Museum (in Groningen, The Netherlands) to visit the exhibition Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner. (can be seen through May 25th 2018) the first international survey exhibition of northern European Romantic landscape painting with more than 95 works from the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia and Great Britain on show. Alongside, (through April, 2nd 2018) the modern version: Romanticism Today!; with a selection from the Groninger Museum’s collections of modern art, fashion and design.

Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner

Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner

Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner

Marga Weimans/Romanticism Today!/Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner

VanLamsweerdeMatadin. Romanticism Today!/Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner

Viktor & Rolf/Romanticism Today!/Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner

Henk Tas. Romanticism Today!/Romanticism in the North: from Friedrich to Turner/

Invisible Personage Armchair

Obviously it’s winter time. It’s cold, nee, it’s Freezing. This awful weather makes us remember the furry designer chair we saw at the BD Barcelona showroom in Spain last summer. The armchair is named ‘Invisible Personage’, it’s created (or: extracted from the “Singularities” painting, by Salvador Dali in 1935. During those years Dalí completed a series with absent figures, which he called invisible personages.) by Oscar Tusquets, inspired by Dali and from the Dali series of designs by Oscar Tusquets. Mr Tusquets is a multi-talented person: an architect, painter and designer of furniture and other products. In his younger years he and Salavador Dali were friends. Tusquets, being one of the founders of the brand BD, produced the plastic Dalilips couch chair in 1975 together with the surrealist painter. This is the Invisible Personage armchair, the latest design from Dalí-inspired design series (2016) at BD Barcelona, made in a limited edition of 20 pieces. It will keep you warm but, unfortunately; this chair is an artpiece, can it really be used as a seater? We wonder how, whomever bought the chair (with the bowl on top of it) uses and cleans it? Continue reading →

Carpet interiors by Farid Rasulov

The Carpet interiors by Farid Rasulov are installations and digital prints of entirely upholstered rooms in which he stages animals in white. We, at Mimi Berlin, think they are wonderful. We would transform our house into Rasulov’s Carpet Interiors but we dont own a vacuum cleaner: so that’s a no go, period. Farid “Rasulov is active across a wide range of artistic media – large scale paintings, installations, 3D graphics, animation and sculpture.” (read more faridrasulov.com)

Farid Rasulov dogs in the livingroom. solo show at Rabouan Moussion Gallery, Paris.

Farid Rasulov dogs in the livingroom. solo show at Rabouan Moussion Gallery, Paris.